[Honor 7 General] tndb:
Hey everyone, think its a bit sad that we dont got our own phone section since ShotX/7i and the regular 7 doesnt share the same cpu architecture so forgive me for cluttering down but just wanted to try and help our fellow honor comrades :)

The files to do this is taken from the chinese huawei forum (http://club.huawei.com/thread-5761110-1-1.html) and thus I take no credit for the files, im merely making a english guide with chinese files to hopefully spur some development.

The root itself was made for Honor 7i which is the asian market version (I believe?) but ShotX is the same phone but for international market (with LTE 800Mhz band, not sure if there are any other differences) and root was performed and confirmed working by me on my ShotX with Lollipop 5.1.1/B130 firmware so no guarantes if it will work on other firmwares. Im also not responsible if you brick your phone or it catches on fire etc.

First you need to unlock your bootloader

and to do so you will first need to turn on the "allow bootloader oem unlock" so enter settings, about phone, and then press build number 10 times to activate "developer mode".

Go back one step into main settings and the open developer settings, find and enable "allow bootloader oem unlock" (if you have fingerprint or any other code activated then it will ask you for that code) and while you are in here make sure to click "enable usb debugging" aswell.

You will also need a bootloader unlock code from huaweis site by filling out the necessary information on this page http://emui.huawei.com/en/plugin.php?id=unlock&mod=detail

Product model: HUAWEI ATH-UL01 (settings->about phone->model number)

Product serial number: EGQ7Nxxxxxxxxxxx (settings->about phone->Status->Serial number)

Product IMEI: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (*#06# IMEI1 or settings->about phone->Status->IMEI1)

Product ID: xxxxxxxx (*#*#1357946#*#*)

So once youve got the code, make sure to write it down on a safe place, next you need adb toolkit. May I recommend Minimal ADB? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2317790

Now when you´ve come this far, remember that as soon as you unlock your bootloader, the phone will factory reset and you will loose any data and settings made unless you make a backup before

Insert usb data cable into pc and phone, open command prompt and be in your adb installation directory.

Start with typing "adb devices" to see if your phone is detected and make sure to check on your phone when it asks for permission that you allow your pc. I was running windows 10 x64 when I rooted my phone and I didnt need any driver but your mileage may vary if on w7 or w8. Remember to use "adb kill-server" if you experience issues when trying to connect phone with adb.

If phone is detected then you should get something like

EGQ7Nxxxxxxxxxxx device

Then all is good and you can type

adb reboot bootloader

Now to check if phone still is with us you type

fastboot devices and you should see something like

8b0dd496 fastboot

If you are still with us then type fastboot oem unlock xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx where the xxxx´es represent your bootloader unlock code which you should have retrieved earlier from huaweis site.

To confirm that your bootloader is unlocked, simply type fastboot oem get-bootinfo and you should see

(bootloader) Bootloader Lock State: UNLOCKED

Congrats! Now youre ready to root the phone

If you recently unlocked bootloader then you need to activate developer settings again and turn on usb debugging aswell.

Download the files below

https://mega.nz/#!BsQiiYpL!xVwbyHTRsVGFsO6LpJacxP64gFrOlCNTRHTI1-vdLLw TWRP install program

https://mega.nz/#!9hQi2I7A!JX121sJ2vChMuxrx1puxf-L1rP9LSPaJW-JnqvEAzIg Root

Put the EMUI3.1 Android 5.1 ROOT补丁（不要双清不要解压.zip file somewhere on your phones memory storage where you can find it.

Unzip the 荣耀7i TWRP recovery.zip and open it up and then you press the second button which says TWRP REC and it should flash twrp. Power off phone and then press vol+ and power where you keep pressing vol+ but let go off power as soon as screen is lit and you should be in recovery in a bit. If you still got the default huawei recovery then redo the procedure (I pressed TWRP REC at first but didnt see any twrp installed so I then just pressed REC just to be disapointed again but 3rd time with TWRP REC it worked so not sure what goes on but just so you know if you also fail to get TWRP installed)

Once youre in twrp you will be greeted with chinese again :P but buttons are located on same spots so just compare it to a english twrp image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWRP#/media/File:TWRP_2.7.0.0.png

Just press top left button and select the root file you should have putted on your phone earlier and flash it, when its done just hold the physical power button to reset incase you´re unsure of the reboot button and you should be good to go :)

Grats on your rooted phone, after some cleanup (possible with root) this phone is flying like never before

Some highly recommended root apps

Rom toolbox lite, so you can flash roms/mods without knowing your way in the chinese twrp and uninstall apps etc

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.liberty.toolbox&hl=sv

Kernel adiutor, great for getting a bit more performance out of the phone by tweaking cpu and gpu speed

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grarak.kerneladiutor&hl=sv

And lastly the great snapdragon camera which is pretty fast and nice to use which you need to flash in twrp (or with rom toolbox)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=64410821&postcount=44

Its for one+ x but it works as expected for our ShotX/7i aswell (Obvisually dont use this if youre on a regular Honor 7 device since it doesnt have snapdragon processor)